King James Bible

Psalms 9

The Book of Psalms

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Chapter 10

1

 

 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble? 

 


2

 

 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 

 


3

 

 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth. 

 


4

 

 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts. 

 


5

 

 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them. 

 


6

 

 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity. 

 


7

 

 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity. 

 


8

 

 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 

 


9

 

 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 

 


10

 

 He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. 

 


11

 

 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it]. 

 


12

 

 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 

 


13

 

 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]. 

 


14

 

 Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 

 


15

 

 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none. 

 


16

 

 The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. 

 


17

 

 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: 

 


18

 

 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. 

 


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